Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t travel to Bali to participate in next week’s G20 summit, Moscow’s embassy to Indonesia confirmed overnight on Thursday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation instead, the Russian Embassy’s chief of protocol Yulia Tomskaya told AFP. “President Putin’s program is still being worked out, he could participate virtually,” …
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, an Indonesian government official said Thursday, a decision that avoids a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the chief of support for G-20 events, said Putin’s …
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, an Indonesian government official said Thursday, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders are to attend the …
The president’s remarks come before he’s set to take off for a trip to Asia. He’ll be in Indonesia next week for the G-20 summit where he could cross paths with the Russian leader. It’s not yet clear if Putin will show, though Biden has expressed his willingness to meet with his Russian counterpart — …
Russia on Wednesday said it would pull troops out of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, which it captured in the early days of the war — a new humiliation for Vladimir Putin. Russia’s commander in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, said on Russian state TV that it was no longer possible to keep supplying the …
The hope is it would reinforce to the world that it’s Ukraine, not Russia, that wants to resolve the conflict. “That doesn’t mean they need to go to the negotiating table right now. We don’t even think right now is the right time based on what Russia is doing,” the official continued. “But they must …
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics. In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia’s Facebook …
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that civilians in Ukraine’s Kherson region should be evacuated from the conflict zone, the Kremlin chief’s first acknowledgement of a deteriorating situation in a region he claims to have annexed. “Now, of course, those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of the most dangerous …
Is Russian President Vladimir Putin stepping back from the nuclear ledge? After weeks of apocalyptic atomic innuendo, Russia on Wednesday issued a bland statement reaffirming its long-standing policies on the use of nuclear weapons — a possible sign that the Kremlin is trying to cool the escalatory rhetoric it employed throughout October. “Russia is strictly …
Soldiers from Buryatia, a small Republic in Siberian Russia, were among the first to be sent to the front lines in Ukraine. And they were among the first to die there. When journalist Yelana Trifonova heard about a memorial service for the fallen, she immediately bought a ticket for the eight-hour trip from her home …
